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So the first quarter of the year has finished for gaming and its come back that the PS3 has outsold the 360 in Australia. Well the PS3 has managed to outsell the 360 by a whopping 45%. Though the statistics may have also included the fact that Sony gave away 28,000 PS3s' in a Bravia LCD holiday promotion.
SCE Australia managing director Michael Ephraim says that the PlayStation 3 far outsold Microsoft's Xbox 360 in Australia during the first quarter of 2008.
Ephraim told PALGN that the PS3 outsold Xbox 360 by 45 percent in Australia during Q1 2008, and that he expects the console's domestic installed base to top that of Microsoft's 360 by the end of the year.
"I can tell you in the first quarter of 2008 we have outsold Xbox 360 by around 45 percent," he said. "That is not including the Bravia deal, which moved through around 30,000 units, so if you add the Bravia deal to our global sales we have now, in the first quarter of 2008 we have outsold the Xbox 360 by two to one.
"We think it's a matter of time before we surpass the [Xbox 360] install base... We're just guessing somewhere around the end of the year, if not sooner if the trend keeps going the way it is."
Earlier this month Sony Computer Entertainment Australia announced that the PS3 had reached an installed base of 238,000 during its first year on the market, eclipsing the year one performance of the PS2.
The figure, which came directly from Sony and not official industry sales monitor GfK Australia, may also have included more than 28,000 consoles given away as part of a Sony Bravia LCD holiday promotion.
Comments
It sure helps them in the long run.
If you read the article properly they gave away THE PS3'S with THE TV, Not the other way round. So the 28,000 who bought the tv got a ps3 with it.
Although in the article the sony guy says its 45% without.
Then the 360 gets like 20 mill sales, You would be like
"oh thats not fair"
Plus I dont see the point in sales articles, WHy would I care how muhc its sold, Ive got mine already, and enjoying it.
Also please make something thats actually attainable.
I would question why people want Vista since XP is the only OS thats actually good.
Fact is 360 has 19 million sales worldwide cause its obviously more liked. But again you miss my point completely.
Using 'Vista sucks' as a reason proves your infantile idiocy.
As for the Vista Thing, why would they give away an OS and WO?
Its not something I see them actually doing, and he used all of the 360 console sales worldwide. Now if he used the same number as the PS3 sales(like the article), then he could be making a point, but seriously I doubt there is 20 million people wanting Vista and WO in the first place.
TV or no PS3 is far more popular in Australia than the 360, according to the articles I read.
And yes us Australians love buying Japanese stuff which is kind of ironic when you think about it
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